By: Erik Brady – usatoday.com – June 5, 2018 The Philadelphia Eagles were supposed to be at the White House Tuesday to celebrate their Super Bowl title. It’s one of those Washington traditions that is a sort of win-win for both sides. Presidents and players get to bask in each other’s reflected glory. They are America’s winners – of national...

By: Rachel Alexander – townhill.com – June 4, 2018 The saying “If you can’t say something nice, say nothing at all” used to be popular in America. This began to change in the 1960s, when loud, in-your-face hippie protests emerged, and so began the spiraling down of manners. Then later on, the emergence of email as a common method of...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 4, 2018 Tolerance, it appears, is not a one-way street. Since the rise of the gay-marriage movement, it has become fashionable to decry dissenters as haters and bigots, to attempt to write them out of polite society in the same way that the larger American body politic has rightfully rejected the Klan. Politicians...

By: Tony Perkins – stream.org – June 2, 2018 There’s a lot to dislike about many public schools — and right now, student safety is at the top of the list. “After a gunman opened fire on students in Parkland, Florida,” a new Washington Times feature explains, “the phones started ringing at the Texas Home School Coalition, and they haven’t...

By: Bill Mears & Judson Berger – FoxNews.com – June 4, 218 Supreme Court rules in favor of Colorado baker Supreme Court rules for Colorado baker who wouldn’t make same-sex wedding cake. The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, in one of the most closely...

By: Alex Thompson – news.vice.com – May 31, 2018 Less than a week before the California primary, Google listed “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party. In the “knowledge panel” that provides easy access to information next to search results, Google was showing “Nazism” as an “ideology” of the party as of Thursday morning. The word “Nazism” was...

By: Frank Pallotta and Brian Stelter – money.cnn.com – May 29, 2018 “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey said in a statement. Disney CEO Bob Iger added on Twitter that “there was only one thing to do here, and that was the...

By: Roni Caryn Rabin – nytimes.com – May 29, 2018 The millennial generation’s breezy approach to sexual intimacy helped give rise to apps like Tinder and made phrases like “hooking up” and “friends with benefits” part of the lexicon. But when it comes to serious lifelong relationships, new research suggests, millennials proceed with caution. Helen Fisher, an anthropologist who studies...

By: Howard Schultz – news.Starbucks.com – May 23, 2018 This afternoon Starbucks will close more than 8,000 stores and begin a new chapter in our history. In 1983 I took my first trip to Italy. As I walked the streets of Milan, I saw cafés and espresso bars on every street. When I ventured inside I experienced something powerful: a...

By: Carl Horowitz – townhall.com – May 28, 2018 Never before in the history of corporate America has a company so welcomed accusations of racism as Starbucks. But that could have been expected given the worldview of Executive Chairman Howard Schultz. Several weeks ago, Schultz announced that on May 29 he would close around 8,000 of the company’s outlets to...